Ruth Threadgold
Exploring the Unspoken in Paint

Ruth Threadgold is a self-taught German Painter in Boise whose intuitive, emotionally charged works invite viewers into the quiet spaces between thought and feeling. Working with ink, acrylic, and oil sticks, she captures the subtleties of human experience—the unsaid, the felt, the judged but unspoken. Her approach to painting is both deliberate and organic: sometimes letting gravity and the laws of nature shape the composition, allowing paint to move as substance and energy rather than just color.

Her abstract pieces often echo the internal landscapes of reflection, conflict, and calm, leaning into texture, movement, and space to evoke a deeply personal yet universal resonance. Ruth’s work lives in the in-between—between clarity and ambiguity, between idea and emotion—with a hopeful undercurrent that reminds us: despite its contradictions, the world might just be okay.